Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.