Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.

Imgur has always been profitable right from the very beginning, and the only time I ever had to spend money on it was for the initial domain name because as soon as I released it, people liked it so much that they were donating, and so Imgur survived for the first six months just purely on donations.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.