The architecture of a system determines its behavior more than the content of its knowledge.

Never outshine the master. Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.

Every book is a journey, and every journey changes us.

"The power of a story is in its ability to inspire hope."

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.