Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Always deliver more than expected.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.

I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.