There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

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.

Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Motivation is a lotta crap.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

[Eva Braun] was the one who was involved with [Adolf Hitler], who was close to him.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.