The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

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.

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

Free trade does bring jobs to America.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.