Only the autodidacts are free.

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.

Reading is better than life. Without reading, you’re stuck with life.

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—” He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.

"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.