The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

Great products sell themselves.

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

You are worth more than what people say or think of you.

Don't care about *new* mistakes you are going to make, take care that you don't just repeat older ones.

Though the wind was commanding the sand into even ridges, it couldn't control the sea.

Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse

It is always a pride to die as an American.

Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.