Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
I was gonna put him on the bus. . . I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
Beware of the person of one book.