Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.

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.

People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.