I don't like to repeat success, I like to go on to other things.

There is no retirement age for writers…

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.