Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Moonlight is sculpture.

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

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

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.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

What is to give light must endure burning.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.