While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.