The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

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

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.

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.

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

What you consistently Believe in your Spirit becomes a Reality with time

Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.