You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

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 wanted to stay this way forever.Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.