If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

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.

Besides, love is only a feeling.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

Observations always involve theory.

I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.