I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

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.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

Understanding is a two-way street.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Faith never makes a confession.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.