Without gambling, I would not exist.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

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.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.