The underdog winning is the romantic position.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

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

The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn't even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.

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.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is -- is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

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

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150).

I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.

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

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

I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative -- to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception -- is worse.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.