Shoe dogs were people who devoted themselves wholly to the making, selling, buying, or designing of shoes. - Phil Knight

There were many ways down Mount Fuji, according to my guidebook, but only one way up. Life lesson in that, I thought.

Hard, brown, ancient, he possessed a prehistoric strain of maleness, a blend of grit and integrity and calcified stubbornness that was rare in Lyndon Johnson’s America. Today it’s all but extinct.

But that’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you like it or not, it will try to define your days. Our task as human beings is not to let it.