Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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.

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.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

Murders came with smiles, shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas.

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

Love and peace to everyone. May your God go with you.

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.