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.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.