I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.
You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had. . but no matter what, never lose yourself.
Time is a currency you can only spend once.
When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.
Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?
Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.
When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.
The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind.
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.