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.

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.

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.

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

Man is a bad animal.

The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.