Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

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.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.

I don't like things that aren't true.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.