The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

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.

Not at all. Cooking is cool. I’ll make you one shaped like the moon.”“Why the moon?”“Because you remind me of the moon, ” he said, and looked into his bowl. Sarah blushed.

We live in an increasingly chaotic world and it takes a conscious and concerted effort to protect one’s humanity.

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.