I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

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.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun.

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.