Anger is a loss of control over the situation, and it is a contract that you’re making with yourself — that you’re going to literally be in physical and mental and emotional turmoil.

Just focus on the one or two really really important things, and everything else, just surrender to it. Just take it as it comes. Just accept it. Be glad with it. Be happy that you’re in this world.

You realize just how precious life is and how it’s important to make sure that you enjoy yourself, you sleep well at night, you’re a good moral person, you’re generally happy, you take care of other people, you help out, but you can’t take it too seriously.

You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.

My 50-year-old self is going to say chill out, relax, don’t stress so much, live in the moment. It will all be all right.

Knowledge is discovered by all of us, each adding to the whole. Wisdom is rediscovered by each of us, one at a time.

If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are. If you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful.

Don’t return it, give it away. Don’t keep fixing it, create something new. Don’t force the relationship, find someone else.

Think clearly from the ground up. Understand and explain from first principles. Ignore society and politics. Acknowledge what you have. Control your emotions.

The best relationships are peer relationships. When given power over others, our ego justifies it by assuming we are smarter. Better to have people work with us than for us.

I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

Do everything you were going to do, but with less angst, less suffering, less emotion. Everything takes time.

The people with the best judgment are among the least emotional.

My definition of wisdom is knowing the long term consequences of your actions.

It’s a contradiction that we all deal with. That we all want to be successful people, but we also want to be happy people. The two of those run in almost diametric opposites to each other.

When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add.

Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles.

The biggest mistake any performer can make is to look at the audience.

Picking the direction that you’re heading in in every decision is far, far more important than what force you apply. Just pick the right direction to start walking in, and then start walking.

Better motivated on the wrong thing than unmotivated on the right thing.

If you want to see who rules over you, see who you’re not allowed to criticize.

All greatness comes from suffering.

The most successful entrepreneurs are authentic to who they are and what they uniquely can do.