There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

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.

Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.

I'm strictly a 'look at the menu but don't order anything' guy when it comes to attractive women who aren't my wife.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.