travel, hiking in the mountains, visiting museums, skiing, reading, philosophy

Led Zeppelin, U2, Stevie Wonder, The White Stripes, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Gorillaz, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, The Rolling Stones, R.E.M., Moby, Depeche Mode, Mozart, Debussy

"The Heart of Understanding" (Thich Nhat Hanh) "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" (Dan Millman) "The Inferno" (Dante) "The Great Gatsby" (F. Scott Fitzgerald) "Moby Dick" (Herman Melville) "Candide" (Voltaire) "War and Peace" (Leo Tolstoy) "The Good Soldier Schweik" (Yaroslav Hasek) "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (Milan Kundera) "The Analects" (Confucius) "The Teachings of the Budda" "The Lord of the Flies" (William Golding) "Touch the Top of the World" (Erik Weihenmayer)

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Roosevelt

"Don't worry about not having a position. Instead, worry about having the qualities necessary to hold a position." - Confucius

"Know thyself" - Socrates

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself" - Plato

"This above all: to thine own self be true" - Shakespeare

"A leader is a dealer in hope" - Napoleon

“Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve” - Aminu Kano

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning" - Mark Twain

"Attitudes are more important than facts" - Karl Menniger

"Carpe diem" - Caesar

"He was a man of conscience, and therefore was often depressed" - Dostoevsky

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise." - Sideon Gabrielle

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it" - Einstein

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." - JFK

"My country is the world. And my religion is to do good." - Thomas Paine

“"That is well said," replied Candide, "but we must cultivate our garden.” - Voltaire

"We must become the change we wish to see in the world" - Gandhi