The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

They are kissing—finally, extravagantly, like it's the first thirty seconds of a kissing competition and they can't imagine they'll ever get tired.

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.