The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

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.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.