The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

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

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

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

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion

It is inevitable plunge into your lookwithout falling in love

Your body language shapes who you are

The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.

It's easier to eat nothing than to eat something.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

You were never what I wanted to forget.

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.