If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.