“Reality is negotiable.”

Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.

The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Be grateful for these storms, my child, for they carry lessons that transform our souls.

Filled with sorrow yet empty.

Violet is the color of the deepest dreams the synonym of too much love. Violet is the pain we willingly let in and the promises we’ll never break.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

There is something immensely dark about wars, they give more reasons to destruct and fewer reasons to reconstruct.