Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.

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.

The chance to do it over again is called now.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.