Life is too short to be small.

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?