I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

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.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

And I wanted to believe that there could be an us. That some way, somehow there would be an us somewhere in the future that I could not see.

Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

I like someone who has a super gentle spirit and energy. I’m really gentle, and so I like a boy who will treat me that way.

I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.