Our failure to domesticate even a single major new food plant in modern times suggests that ancient peoples really may have explored virtually all useful wild plants and domesticated all the ones worth domesticating.

Life is too short to wait for someone else to give you permission or approval to follow your dreams.

The fundamental problem is that this attitude towards time sets up a rigged game in which it’s impossible ever to feel as though you’re doing well enough.

The more you are living a committed life well, the more joy will be your steady state, the frame of mind you carry around with you and shine on others. You will become a joyful person.

Those messages are from you to you. They are from the part of you that knows what is needed to help you get better. If you ignore those messages, eventually you’ll stop getting them.

Most of our suffering takes place when we allow our minds to imagine the future or mull over the past.

Design and systemize your machine. Creativity is also important to this process, as is character, because the most important problems to design around are often the hardest, and you need to come up with original ways of addressing them and be willing to make hard choices.

Fundamental to putting first things first in our lives is leadership before management: 'Am I doing the right things?' before 'Am I doing things right?'

Because perception helps create reality, wielding power in ways that demonstrate power, doing things that signal power, helps to ensure that power will be perpetuated.

Being a leader requires Independent, unique: “Leaders learn from others, but not created by others”.