Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure...

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.

God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.

I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.