The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

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.

I'm Allen Walker!"My life....is over...I'm going to die....

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.