Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

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.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

A school bell that sounds annoying at 8:00am sounds exciting at 4:00pm ....it is a matter of time, you will get there.

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds