"The harder I work, the luckier I become."

“Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.”

“I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.”

Source : Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

“Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.”

“Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.”

“No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.”

“Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look.”

Source : "Scientology appealing to African-Americans" by Matthew Hay Brown, www.baltimoresun.com. September 7, 2009.

“To be free is to be equal, but to be equal is not to be free.”

“What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.”