By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. 

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. 

'Ego' is a small word that can cause massive problems!

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

I was a disadvantaged child from a uneducated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.