You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

When warmongers offer to negotiate for peace, it is called diplomacy.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. 

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.