If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.

Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!

Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.

Helpful is the new viral.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

Ask what you can do for influencers, not what influencers can do for you - develop relationships!

Twitter marketing in 4 words: Listen. Learn. Care. Serve.

Effective results come from knowing what's in it for them. What's your community there for and how you can nurture it?

Have courage. It clears the way for things that need to be.

Want more Twitter followers? Take care of the ones you have FIRST!

I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge.

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels.

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.