If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

Down on my knees again. Worship isn’t enough.”Peter leaned forward and rubbed his forehead against Charlie’s. “I’m going to like this, ” he murmured. “Daily services. Hourly services.

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . "Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In

Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.