The more I make the more I can give away.

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.

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.

Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

Thank God for the journey of life.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.