Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

To do good, you actually have to do something.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.

Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.

Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

I dont have a license, but I do drive.