"It is a essential truth that the highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 40 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 73."

"We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build."

"I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right."

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."