I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I give opinions, not advice.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Our nation must come together to unite.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.