We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

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.

Stories are not like the real world

We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars

Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee?

Discover the World give us more Education to Ourselves.

It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought I could be me?

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

The most important medicine is tender love and care.