A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

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.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.