The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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

Compassion is the basis of morality.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.