I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

I always turn to my intuition for personal guidance.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.