You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

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.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.