When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the 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.

It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.