“But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.”

It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.

Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.

I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

Be fearlessly authentic.

I think you have to be fair with one another. It’s unfortunate when someone does something that’s not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.