For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. 

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. 

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human values, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.