The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

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 only gain in life when you multiply

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.