I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

If you think you can't, you're right.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

p.s.: I know you're rolling your eyes right now, but I don't care. Honestly, it's always kind of been a turn on.

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

I didn't mean to turn you on.

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.

It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.