What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

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.

They make only progress. Instead of revenge, self progress is more safe to downgrade others including enemy.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life, ' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.