I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

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.

Children are everything we could have been.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.