Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

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.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.