The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action

Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Tears are words that need to be written.

‘Consensus’ is just another way of saying ‘average’.

If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.

The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example.

You’re meant to do something. You’re not just meant to lie there in the sand and meditate all day long. You should self-actualize. You should do what you are meant to do.

No one can compete with you on being you, no one can compete with me on being me, so when I think about what my profession, what my job, what my work is, it’s just being me.

On who he considers successful: to me the real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don’t even play the game; who rise above it. Those are the people who have such internal mental and self control and self awareness that they need nothing from anybody else.

Being a founder is brutally difficult. It takes a long time and in the long run, the people who succeed are just the ones who persevere.

No one can compete with you if you love to do it. Be authentic and then figure out how to map that to what society actually wants, apply some leverage, put your name on it so you take the risks but you gain the rewards, have ownership and equity in what you do, and then just crank it out.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Once you’ve truly controlled your own fate, for better or for worse, you’ll never let anyone else tell you what to do.

Asymmetric opportunities: Invest in startups. Start a company. Create a book, podcast, video. Create a (software) product. Go on many first dates. Go to a cocktail party. Read a Lindy book. Move to a big city. Buy Bitcoin. Tweet.