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?

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

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.

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

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.