The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Every artist was first an amateur.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

We live in a bewildering world.