Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

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.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

I know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, so I cannot really stand on a political pedestal and say, "I'm against Facebook!" But I haven't wanted to be on Facebook from the beginning.

The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

I think God cares about everything he created.