“Most coincidences are simply chance events that turn out to be far more probable than many people imagine.”

“It’s not by chance that most of the basketball players are tall men, nor that most of the transvestite are homosexuals. It’s also not a coincidence that most of those who hold the power are ambitious people. In other words, it’s not a coincidence that the world is ruled by people who shouldn’t rule.”

“Where you have older children, make current events part of the dinner table talk. Be quick to point out left-wing slanting of news, TV or radio broadcasts. There is far more of this slanting than most people realize.”

“The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realise because the number of potential wild cards is so great.”

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”

“Things are not always as they seem. Sometimes, even most times, they are far stranger than you’d imagine, and most likely more perverse than you’d care to consider.”

“The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.”

“As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

“As a process, choosing for myself turned out to be much more valuable in the long run, rather than simply accepting or rejecting a single point of view.”