Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. - Steve Jobs

Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things — that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clear enough to make it simple. But it's worth in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.