People always told me photos have been done. My feeling was, these people are wrong.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

Great products sell themselves.

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

In success, knowledge - In failure, lessons.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.