If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

People want you to fail.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.