Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

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.

The Gift of Life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure . . . some with Pleasure!-RVM

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.