It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

My life is my message.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. 

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.