Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

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 start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

I do come from a strong family.

What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'