Luck is the grand equalizer.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.