The REASON the social-networking phenomenon is SOMETHING that I invested in early and massively - I led the SERIES A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook - it SOUNDS trivial, but people matter.

What is READING, but SILENT CONVERSATION.

It was a beautiful CUSTOM. When a PERSON who had a break of GOOD luck entered a cafe and ordered a cup of coffee, he didn't PAY just for one, but for two cups, allowing someone less fortunate who entered later to have a cup of coffee for FREE.

There does not exist a CATEGORY of SCIENCE to which one can GIVE the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the TREE which BEARS it.

The nations of EUROPE constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and ELABORATE as to subject the action, and sometimes even the INTERNAL affairs, of each to surveillance and INTERVENTION on the part of all the others.

People have always SAID, are you gay? I've had a LOT of that. But it's just not in me. I REALLY LIKE WOMEN a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

My travels led me to where I am TODAY. SOMETIMES these STEPS have felt PAINFUL, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

I think I used to not know if I could be a GOOD pastor because I think I had some things in mind that I THOUGHT were PART of being a pastor that don't NECESSARILY have to be.

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've VISITED this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I READ the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely SOMETHING different. This is a whole NEW life.'

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music INDUSTRY. It REALLY means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It ALSO means a lot to have Oprah on my SPEED dial!