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

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; 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.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

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.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

Achievement is talent plus preparation