An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?

Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.