I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.