When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

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.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary.

Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.