If you want to be successful, you have to be your own brand.

Eurasia’s long head start on human settlement; its more effective food production, resulting from greater availability of domesticable wild plants and especially of animals; and its less formidable geographic and ecological barriers to intracontinental diffusion.

Contempt as a rule will cease with the beginning of mourning for the irreversible that cannot be changed, for contempt, too, has in its own way served to deny the reality of the past.

It’s not what you used to do, it’s not what you think, it’s what you do every day.

People’s reactions to the physical and behavioral appearance of power is at least partly instinctual and subconscious.

3. 'Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

The very outcomes we fear if we confront someone’s behavior are practically guaranteed to show up if we don’t.

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

No longer did I have to invent myself. One week later, when the fall 1999 school semester came around, I felt more ready to face the patterns and legacy of my past.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.