Mark Zuckerberg

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

It’s, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we’ve had some very serious ups and downs.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it… Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness , we don’t really know what love is.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

For so many people, TV and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them. It becomes important for the world to see different images of each other, so that we can develop empathy and understanding.