I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

Achievement is talent plus preparation

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.