Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

If you want to have more, you must become more.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.