After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

You feed your depressive thoughts through overthinking.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Wisdom dawns on us when we start losing our wisdom teeth!

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.