Working really hard is what successful people do.

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.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.