I do not need to settle for less than what I want in a relationship.

It is not my job to fix others.

It is okay if others get angry.

It is not my job to take responsibility for others.

I don’t have to anticipate the needs of others.

It is my job to make me happy.

I am enough.

How somebody feels about me doesn’t define me and doesn’t affect who I am.

We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.

Fire is never a gentle master

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.

I lived for a couple of years when I was 9 years old on beautiful Aboriginal sacred land in a town of a thousand people in northwestern Australia. It's where the Aborigines are still very connected to their culture, the Dreamtime culture. It was really quite a special experience.

I love being in my 40s.

I can't put anyone even really close to Christina Aguilera besides Stacie Orrico.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

You can always take the easy way out and give up but real strength comes when you decide to keep pushing forward no matter what the circumstances are.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men men are not united but merely lined up.

'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

I've really gotten into fashion, and ever since I got into the NBA, I feel like players are walking billboards.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

What you can't comprehend within your thoughts will be impossible to make real within your world.

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.