When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

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.

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.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

You're likable enough, Hillary.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.