Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Where love is, there God is also.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. 

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passed away.