We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

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.

All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.

As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.

John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances

I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.