“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”

“Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.”

“The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product o...”

“Cultures arent so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.”

“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”

“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then youre competing against a lot of people. But if youre willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, youre now competing again...”

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”