The only reason to pursue fame is to forestall the possibility that you’re the kind of person who would die wishing you’d been more famous

In East Germany they had a planned economy and an old joke: I pretend to work You pretend to pay me

When given the command “Explain yourself” A believer is someone who answers “I have no explanation” In order to explain everything

When I was a child The most authoritarian teacher Exerted her control through Silent lunch Yesterday, in the cafeteria

Heart cancer is vanishingly rare because a heart of gold only spreads love, not gold while a mind of gold inevitably spreads all the way

You know you must die and yet you must live You can never know if you’re right and yet you must choose So it’s not

Our brains are just big enough to operate eight fingers and two thumbs An octopus is smart but if it also had

Thanks to his bifocals Ben Franklin could see that while we might look like bald… up close we’re clearly turkeys

The soul is an appendix made of wo… and while plenty of people function perfectly well without on… much like the physical appendix– which stores good bacteria

Generation X Marks the Spot Where a hex Is an aught But a flex

It is only when you conduct a fearless moral inventory that you will come to fear God because you knew the right thing t… but did the wrong thing anyway

We are gathered around our phones Like little campfires And all we ever hear Are scary stories

If you want people to Languish, Control their Language If you want people to exercise the…

As bumbling first mate to his capt… Gilligan wasn’t in charge But he was the star of the show Which is how the male ego understa…

For a human being Every day starts with a question– What mistake will I learn from to… For as long as I can remember My answer has been