The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.