I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.