We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

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.

Poppy: What makes you think I'm having dinner with you?Jake: Because you can't sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You'll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.

The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.

So on a scale of one to Adele, how bad was this breakup?

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.

The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.