“You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.”

It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.

Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.

I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.

If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.

I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.

In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

In life, no two days are the same for me. It’s like a snowflake.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’

I swim a lot. I swim most days.

Well, well, he said. Five days a week isnt enough of me? Had to give me an evening, too?

Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy