Bottom line is I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25 my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination but Sancho Panza.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall and increases but to decay.