It is better to deal with wrongs immediately than to postpone your action till it snowballs into something big.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. 

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpse Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Anchor keeps the ship in one place. But that is not what ships are made for!

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.