Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

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.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

I'm a sucker for curiosity's whims.Does that make me a cat person?

I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.

Men meet; mountains, never.

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.