Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.