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.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

You are a lesson to your own life. You just need to turn the page.

Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.

The word of God is enough wealth.

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

The only winner today is big business.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.