I don't like things that aren't true.

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.

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.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.