You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected will be gone one day and you still have the task of keeping American democracy going.

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

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

...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.