Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.