What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.