The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

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.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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