The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
When the sunne shineth, make hay.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Rome was not built in one day.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy. . . . If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
It was very difficult. We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell. I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.