Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.