There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

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.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

I always know I can die at any moment.

I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.

I have a vision for a world where business is the most powerful force for positive change.

An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.