There is no more unmistakable sign of failure than that of a middle-aged man boasting of his successes in college. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.

Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure.

Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor.