It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

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

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

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

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.