The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

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.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

Some people take pictures, I write songs.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.