Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

It's cool to have a personal relationship with someone who's your idol. Someone whose music you used to constantly listen to, when you were hoping you could make it one day.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.