The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

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 meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.