Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

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.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Success is like a seed, it waits for the right conditions that will allow it to grow.

To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

We have time, there's no big rush.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

It's just the easiest way to score a point.

When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.