Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
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.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
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.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
A good liar must have a good memory.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.