"It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up."

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

"Wisdom principle 70 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 91."

"I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now."

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

"There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."