Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

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.

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

Strike hard and fast and do not separate.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

There is no right and no wrong, and there are consequences