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.

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 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.

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

Where there is no vision the people perish.

I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.