With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

When you know better you do better.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

My weapon is literature

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.