What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

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.

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

The White House is a strange place.

He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

The house praises the carpenter.

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.