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

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.

Creativity is a renewable resource.

I’d like to have younger people around me and that I’ll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.

I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.

I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

Creativity comes from constraint.

The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let’s give away a Kindle to everyone.

Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Embrace your constraints.

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

Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making special melodies of sound to balance your chakras and tune up your body.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I’m doing.

Opening your chakras and allowing cosmic energies to flow through your body will ultimately refresh your spirit and empower your life.

And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.