How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

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.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.