Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

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.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.