When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will. ' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was right. We haven't tried hard enough.
One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.