The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

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.

Adversity tests what the soul can endure.

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin.

But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.

I believe the middle class game is dead.

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

My next goal is to be number one in the world.

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.