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

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Now the playbook is we build AI tools to go find these fake accounts, find coordinated networks of inauthentic activity, and take them down; we make it much harder for anyone to advertise in ways that they shouldn’t be.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.