Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

To realize your greatest strengths, you must first overcome your greatest weaknesses.

When there is a fight of reason versus emotion and the mind wonders which one to follow, in most times, emotion wins over reason. But it is reason that should win and emotion shouldn't.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

In my experience all women deserve someone better.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.