The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

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

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

Effective action is always unjust.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

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

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

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

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.