Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

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

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.