I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.