Wisdom

Even if you know you are right, you may be wrong.

Sometimes your highest pay isn't money. Wisdom is another name for humility.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

Keep in mind what Victor Hugo said: 'Popularity is the crumbs of greatness.'

Don't search for defining moments, because they will never come. The moments that define you have already happened, and they will already happen again. And it passes so quickly.

Silence is the vital precursor to voice. Gather your voice in your silence. Listen to it in your own head before you give it away.

You are imperfect. Your knowledge is never complete. Your skills are never infallible. Yet you have to act. You cannot let yourself become paralyzed by fear — yet you cannot blind yourself to failure either.

Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

We have stone-age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. These three stanchions of current civilization explain why we are constantly in trouble.

All of mankind's problems are due to the fact that we do not know what we are and cannot agree on what we wish to become.

Live in the present. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift — that's why it is called the present.

Hard work does not always pay off. If you're working on the wrong thing, it doesn't matter how hard you work, nothing will ever come of it. Hard work is important — just make sure you're working on the right thing.