The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

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.

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

The best part about playing a mom is that people hug moms. I get hugs all the time. It really makes hard days a lot easier, and easy days are downright joyous.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

Washington's a dangerous place.

Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.