What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

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.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

There's something exciting about being afraid.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.

Wherever a ray of solar light can reach, man can reach.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.