Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

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.

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.