You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

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.

I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.

SHOCK ABSORBERSVeterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully

We are sheep surrounded by green pastures, but we will not eat. We seem to have no appetite for the Word of God.

Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.