We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

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 values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!