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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.