There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.

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.

After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

No level of attention is ever enough to sacrifice your dignity.

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.