I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

Every man is his own hell.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I’m perpetually lonely.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

I grew up reading science fiction.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I really have no interest in myself.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Vanity is but the surface.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.