“Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life – like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.”

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, “I am the good one,” it doesn’t work.

Love isn’t supposed to torment you. If it does, there’s probably something wrong.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

When you’re buying a pair of TOMS, if you don’t feel like you’re part of a community, then I’ve failed.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I’m doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I’m doing, stores from all over started calling.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, […] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else’s.

Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’

Kill time and you will kill your career.

It’s perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it’s possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn’t. But it’s not a bad future. And I’m not afraid of it.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.