We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

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.

A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines.

Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same.

Break an Illusion, and you open the eyes of the intelligent.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

I like to keep my face "pretty" because then I won't be like oh my god, what are you doing here?