Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

What we think, we become.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

We don't need to proselytize either by your speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Someone saved a guy who was committing suicide. Now both of them believe in life after death.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

The soul never thinks without a picture.