The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

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 light overcome the darkness.

The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains through old age to the last breath.

To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Rouen shone in dark sunlight and a storm swept it away from my eyes and churned up the broad river with waves which pounced up like cats as our train drew out of the arches of the bridge.

We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.