Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

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

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.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I am not now That which I have been.

Courage is grace under pressure.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.