An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

Don't trust, just verify.

God has make life simple for us but the choices we do at the end of each day, are the ones that make our lives complicated.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.