Reid Hoffman

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

There’s much more stupidity than there is malice in the world.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.