Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Boards don't hit back.

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

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Humility is attentive patience.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

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.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.