People reveal much more about themselves while lying. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

...avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.

Maximizing the probability of winning does not lead to maximizing the expectation from the game when one's strategy may include , i.e., a small chance of a large loss and a large chance of a small win. If you engaged in a Russian Roulette-type strategy... you are likely to show up as the winner in almost all samples—except in the year when you are dead.