What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.