Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Some appointments end up in disappointment.

I have no trouble sleeping.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. 

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

We make war that we may live in peace.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.