All misery comes from rumination, from sitting around, being depressed, going in circles in your own head about me, me, me. Me is a disease.

At some point, if you have high agency, if you're a person that's self-motivated... you will end up where you're meant to go. It's just going to take some effort. The universe drops plenty of opportunity around you, but it's not necessarily on your head; you have to walk over there and pick it up.

Make sure that you don't live life on someone else's definition of success. Form your own definition of success, and thus, form your own definition of failure. And if you are to do that, that will be the best gift you can give yourself.

The tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy of life is what dies within while you're alive.

Luck is one of those things that you shouldn't believe in even if it's true, because believing it will hurt your agency.

I actually think where you live is the single most important decision you make.

I feel, personally, as an entrepreneur or as an investor or as a businessman, if there isn't passion, then why are you doing it? For me, it's very important to have a personal emotional connect with what I'm doing.

You got to jump in both feet into the deep end and figure out how to swim because the minute you know that there is that one option, you're always going to take that option when it gets really tough. No matter how much willpower you have, how determined you are, it's just human instinct. When you don't have that safety net, you're just going to have to make it work—and that's the way I've always approached my work. I've never given up despite any roadblocks or obstacles or setbacks, and that's it man.

You can have dreams. Have one dream for yourself one dream for the nation. I would say have two dreams. One your personal dream wanting for yourself and have one dream for everybody for the nation where you want the world to move. If not Nation take the whole world

You may face many failures, but nevermind them. Take every failure as a stepping stone, but don't leave your dream—hold on to it. The bigger the dream is, the more obstacles might rise in your path.

The best path towards truth is understanding—because when you deeply understand something, you're not going to un-understand it. It's the nature of truth that once you see it, once you learn it, you don't unlearn it, because it's true. Truth is indestructible knowledge in your mind.

The US is a fantastic way to uncover your own self because here's what the US does: it offers you all the possible distractions that the world has to offer—literally everything. You have money; you have entertainment; you have gaming; you have food; you have porn; you literally have everything that you want at your disposal. And then it asks you, 'Are you able to navigate through all this distraction and still make it for yourself?'

I found that thinking about yourself is the source of all unhappiness and misery ... Self-obsession is root of all unhappiness.

At any given time in the world's history, there's usually only one or two places that really matter in terms of moving the world forward.

The person who's going to know the most about weight loss is the person who was fat as a kid. The person who's going to know the most about peace and happiness is the one who was the most miserable inside.

If you are older in life and you don't have the next generation to look forward to, then you better find God fast. Because I don't think your own mind and your own life will be kind to you as you get older.

I think in the next 20 years, there are, in my opinion, the likelihood of these three things happening: we're definitely going to meet [an] intelligent life form outside of Earth, absolutely; number two: interplanetary travel and perhaps even settlement will become a reality; and number three: we will begin to have machines inside of us for virtually everything that we need.

I really believe that you should live your life like an athlete or like a lion, which means that most of your time, you're resting; you're just futzing around; you're lazing around; you're just doing whatever you find entertaining. And then once in a while, you get obsessed with something, and something is important, and you just pour everything into it.

The common belief now is that mushrooms are harmless, right? They're not. I mean, you do enough of that stuff, it'll break your brain.

All my content that is out there that people like, I didn't do it for them; I didn't do it for anything; I didn't do it for anyone; I just did it for me, and it was deeply selfish.