The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.