The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

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.

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

Garden work clears the mind.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.