"If you could really accept that you weren't ok, you could stop proving you were ok. If you could stop proving that you were ok, you could get that it was ok not to be ok. If you could get that it was ok not to be ok you could get that you were ok the way you are. You're ok, get it?"

“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.”

“There are many talented people.”

“Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”

“I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.”

“Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Feb 24, 2013

“I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.”

“Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.”

Source : David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.19, Da Capo Press

“I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.”