Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

Don't trust, just verify.

The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!

Barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is, ' it is a 'becoming.'

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .