You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.

Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible.