As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Each day provides its own gifts.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Life is precious.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

I’m an inventor.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Giving is true having.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

To innovate is not to reform.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.