If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

We see what we believe, not the other way around.

We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.