No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.