I think the homeless thing is very interesting and I think is an incredible exercise.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that's very necessary.

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.