"The only way to be truly antifragile is to have skin in the game."

"Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet."

"The greatest lesson of my life is that I never learned from my mistakes. I only learned from my victories."

"The problem with modernity is that it has removed us from our natural environment."

"A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading."