The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

Patience is seeking help only from Allah.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.