You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

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.

If you don't succeed the first time - you're about average

Try - now's gift.

Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

Writing is my vacation from living.

You must remember how to dream what you already know.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.