You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

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.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.

Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.