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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

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

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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 spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.