The revolution starts at the bottom.

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.

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

Yesterday I soared above the clouds. Today I'll walk the earth again.

We suffer in silence.

To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.

Dogs are the best example of a being who doesn't need to lie to protect someone's pride.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.