We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Freedom is from within.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Each soul is potentially divine.

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.

Boards don't hit back.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.