I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

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.

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

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.

...I have to go home and get a few things done. If I don’t get out the Pledge soon, the dust bunnies are going to be leaving tracks on my furniture...

One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

I've always liked the fact that galleries are free to visit in New York.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.