...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

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.

Life will test you, hurt you, betray you, break you, swallow you, shatter you... but as long as it doesn't leave you, you still have a shot.

I thought I can throw away all my memories but whenever I tell my mind to do it, memories stick it more...!!

Read non-interesting books!

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

I believe in looseness.