Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

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 person you became with her is worth being.

If an eagle is teaching you to fly, ignore the advice of turkeys.

Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.

I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.