The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.