You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us.—Brighton Hayes

Being your authentic self reassures the people you meet.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’