Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...