Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.