I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.

I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.