You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond.

"Literature is the mirror of society, reflecting its virtues and vices with unflinching honesty."

Markets are efficient enough that most investors will not outperform the market over the long term.

The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.