It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

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.

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'.

I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

The greatest thing a human being can do is to be compassionate to humanity.

When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story?

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.