To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

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.

If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

I think a lot of people read the album cover as something scary or creepy. I think it's something positive...something lasting.

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.