It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.