Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

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.

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.