Shoe Dog

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

Vienna, that momentous, coffee-scented crossroads, where Stalin and Trotsky and Tito and Hitler and Jung and Freud all lived, at the same historical moment, and all loitered in the same steamy cafés, plotting how to save (or end) the world. I walked the

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

In college I’d read the analects of Confucius—The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

Romans in the age of the Caesars believed that putting on the right shoe before the left brought prosperity and good luck

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path yourself

don’t take any wooden nickels.”

everyone in this world will like us, or accept us, that we’re often cast aside at the very moment we most need to be included.

runners always work the hardest, and risk the most.