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

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.

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.

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.

Multitasking is actually a hindrance to productivity. Focus on one thing and get it done.

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

My husband keeps me really honest.

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.