Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good.

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.