No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

Wouldn't it be great if we didn't care who got the credit as long as the job got done?

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

I never went into business to make money, but I have found that if I have fun, the money will come.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.