It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.

“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”

“I want to play for years.”

“Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.”

“O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.” 

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

“Rest and be thankful.” 

“All that we behold is full of blessings.” 

The French have got taste.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

“The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.” 

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life

The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends

Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Anyway, one of our biggest challenges, and the one I think John Sculley and I should be judged on in five to ten years, is making Apple an incredibly great 10 or 20 billion-dollar company. ‘Will it still have the spirit it does today?’ We’re charting new territory.

The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don’t believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don’t see that. People bring these things together a lot.

Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry.

As you are growing and changing, the more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you that it thinks you are, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to go, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” Click to tweet And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.