Every man's memory is his private literature.

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

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

A lie never lives to be old.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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.