Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

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.

Only the living water can satisfied our thirst.

Maybe life does suck, Pork Chop, but it beats the hell out of the alternative.

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

I am really glad to be working at the profession that I love.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.