Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

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.

I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

I love Botox, I absolutely love it. I get it minimally so I can still move my face. But I really do think it's a savior.

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

If you don't change, you will become extinct.