Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.