Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

Replace "Have to" with "Want to."

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.