"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"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."

"You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me."

"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution."

"I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated."

"A courageous heart knows that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"To master the mind is to understand that a grateful heart is a magnet for miracles."

"To master the mind is to understand that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."