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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

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

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

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

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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.

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

Moonlight is sculpture.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.