To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

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.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Humor is very healing.

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.