Life Quotes

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.