Obliged quotes

  • Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

  • When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

  • You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to scratch your eyes out. If that isn't the stuff of fairy tales, I don't know what is.

  • We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.

  • Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth.

  • Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

  • There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

  • There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.

  • When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

  • Trump wants to make peace; he wants to see Ukrainian conflict resolved; he wants to see Ukraine get its territory back. It's crystal clear. With Putin, I think we see glimmers; we see a reason to think maybe they do. But they have to make the choice to do that, and they can very well choose the opposite.