I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

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

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

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

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.