It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

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.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

I never fall in love.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

My life is my message.

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

Life is wasted on the living.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.