Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

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.

Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.

If i can't be your true love, i want to be your worst nightmare.

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

The older I get, the faster I was.

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.