We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.