He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Luck is the grand equalizer.