I write every day, without hope or despair.

The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The way I found that works for me is I theme my days. On Monday, at both companies, I focus on management and running the company… Tuesday is focused on product. Wednesday is focused on marketing and communications and growth. Thursday is focused on developers and partnerships. Friday is focused on the company and the culture and recruiting. Saturday I take off, I hike. Sunday is reflection, feedback, strategy, and getting ready for the week.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.

Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930):

1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.
4. When you desire power, examine yourself closely as to why you deserve it.
5. When you have power, use it to build up people, not to constrict them.
6. Do not attempt to live without vanity, since this is impossible, but choose the right audience from which to seek admiration.
7. Do not think of yourself as a wholly self-contained unit.
8. Be reliable.
9. Be just.
10. Be good-natured.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

• Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
• Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye?
• Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
• Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
• Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

M.A.S.H

We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.

In a time of destruction, create something.

90 percent of success is not getting distracted.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

One of the best secrets of a happy life is the art of extracting comfort and sweetness from every circumstance.