When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

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.

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

We’ll make out for a while and you’ll feel better.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

I’m not, like, that smart.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.