Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Baby, you must dance to the music of your soul!

The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.