True rewards -- wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity -- come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

Earn with your mind, not with your time.

Getting in the middle of financial transactions is a regulatory minefield.

Knowledge is either from direct experience or from verifiable, falsifiable science. There is knowledge that is transmitted but not verifiable falsifiable, and this knowledge is indistinguishable from that which is false.

Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.

Truth above everything.

Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time.

The secret to a happy relationship is two happy people.

The more someone is saying that they're moral, ethical, and high integrity, the less likely they are to be that way.

The only opinion of me that I care for is my own, and the only timeframe is now.

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.

Micro and macro optimism: People can be fit, happy, and successful. The world is fine and getting better.

This runaway thinking is just a recipe for anxiety, which is always causing me to try and live forward into the next, into the next, into the next. It's keeping me moving, moving, moving, and not happy, and not peaceful, and not present.

I don't care whether you're a top Wall Street banker, if somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear, and how to behave, you're not a free person.

I think the hard thing here is seeing the truth. To see the truth, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn't want to face the truth.

No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

It's ok to grieve, it's a form of love.

No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.

Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself. It only works when done for its own sake. Hiking is walking meditation. Journaling is writing meditation. Praying is gratitude meditation. Showering is accidental meditation. Sitting quietly is direct meditation.

The advantage of meditation is recognizing just how out of control your mind is.