What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.

People don't rise from nothing.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.