Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down
There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.
Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
I don't expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.
We think of Craigslist as a form of Social Media. We provide a simple service that is mostly free and we leave money in the community, instead of taking it away. Shared values, nothing fancy, treating people like we want to be treated. What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.
Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.
Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.