...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151).

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

I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, ….

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions a….

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then ….

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time t….

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eye….

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts..

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie..

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sen….

I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a l….

Visionaries are limited by their visions..

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas..

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerfu….

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone firs….

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fount….

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. T….

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

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in th….

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness..