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.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Each soul is potentially divine.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.