Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.

Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.

Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death.

I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

The best things in life are free. Sunsets and sunrises are free. Air is free. Love is free. Death is free. The best things in life are free.

Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.