We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

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.

Ours was a history of well intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.

Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.

It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

I believe that happiness is something we create

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.