If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.

The more you give, the more you live.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.