The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.

Science is a form of arrogance control.