Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

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.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.