I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wolloff

It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it.

Whilst the greatest threat to your mission is the internal aspects within you, the external circumstances need to be covered against as well. Scan your external environment and circumstances.

Surrender isn’t a one-time event but a moment-by-moment choice.

Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.