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.
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.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
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.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Boards don't hit back.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
