A great lawyer will help you focus on what really matters (economics and control), while a bad lawyer will make everything worse for you. So choose an experienced lawyer.

If there are no overarching stories, then life is meaningless. Life does not feel meaningless. These stories provide, in their simple yet endlessly complex ways, a living script.

When children experience a particular state of mind, such as feeling frustrated or lonely, they may be tempted to define themselves based on that temporary experience.

By ruthlessly reducing the shallow while preserving the deep, this strategy frees up our time without diminishing the amount of new value we generate.

The concept of vertical progress: Thiel introduces the idea of vertical progress, which involves creating something new and moving from 0 to 1. He contrasts it with horizontal progress, which is incremental and involves copying or improving existing ideas. According to Thiel, vertical progress has a more significant impact on society and is crucial for economic growth.

Sometimes it’s tragedy that shocks us out of false desires and helps us see our real ones.

One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

In all, of the world’s 148 big wild terrestrial herbivorous mammals—the candidates for domestication—only 14 passed the test. Why did the other 134 species fail? To which conditions was Francis Galton referring, when he spoke of those other species as 'destined to perpetual wildness'?

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. In the wilderness God gave Israel the manna every day, and they had no need to worry about food and drink.