You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

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

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

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

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.