You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

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.

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

Well, I don't have much job security.