It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

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

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.