He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

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

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.