It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

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.

To everyone who gets me, thank you. To everyone who doesn't, thank you too. You give me the motivation to keep succeeding just to piss you off.

Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

I like Fidel Castro and his beard.

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.