Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

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.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.

The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.