I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.

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 am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.