Without gambling, I would not exist.

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

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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.

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

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

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

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

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

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

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.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.