A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

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.

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.

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