Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

The last moment is past; this moment is present; and, the next moment will be future. The past, present, and future change with every tick of the clock.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Where love is, there God is also.