Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

You are more powerful than you think.

I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.

[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.