The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while, " he grunted, "It relaxes me.""It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people

But instead of the end, I’m pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God.

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.