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.

If you emulate somebody, you may create an identity crisis for yourself.

COVID-19 has proved that death is no longer an equalizer

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. 

Fear is a double-edged weapon: it can force you to do something or prevent you from doing something.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Science creates scientists...who creates godmen?

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.