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.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

All of my songs are autobiographical.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

When a family film is done well, there’s a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I’m 100 percent fiction writer… I don’t want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don’t state my political messages to anybody.

We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‚Facebook phones.‘ That’s what Facebook Home is.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I’ve often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn’t really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn’t seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.