I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

It’s a funny old world.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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.

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

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

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 will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

People everywhere love Windows.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

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

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

History is more or less bunk.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.