Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.