I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred and fifty thousand people from all over the world, doctors of every race, religion, culture and nation, who fought side by side, brothers and sisters, with each other, not against each other, in a common cause to make the world better.

Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.