My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

It’s the angle. You can’t see me from where you’re standing.

Jesus Christ seeks to save lost souls.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it

One day robots may even babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.

If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.

I think that the transformative nature of love is why we are so drawn to it.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.