I consider Apple to be very closed. Let’s say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can’t exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don’t care that you only have 7 percent to play with

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other’s business.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Consider that this day ne’er dawns again.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Does it occur to you, that the girl has some feelings?

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, and the foundation of happiness or misery.

Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands – Nike, Puma, Coke – all over their bodies.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

I am a pioneer in the making.

The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

I think marriage is the hottest furnace of the spirit today. Much more difficult than solitude, much more challenging for people who want to work on themselves. It’s a situation in which there are no alibis, excruciating most of the time … but it’s only in this situation that any kind of work can be done.