I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

You only have one chance for a first impression.

Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.

This is my mind, i own it!

Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.

If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.