You need a story to displace a story.

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.

Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.