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.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

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

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

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

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

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.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.