Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.