There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

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.

When you open your heart, only then will the light come in.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.