News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.