We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight - Malcolm Gladwell

But what actually matters are the hundreds of small things that the powerful do — or don’t do — to establish their legitimacy, like sleeping in the bed of an innocent man you just shot accidentally and scattering your belongings around his house.

They lacked something that could have been given to them if we’d only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.

Having a parent incarcerated increases a child’s chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.