Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.
If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.
What you seek is seeking you.
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.