A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

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

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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.

Sunlight is painting.

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.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.