You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

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.

Murder was a fascination as always.

We don't need magic to change the world.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.