Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.