You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

Flom had the same experience...He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.