A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

Pat yourself on the back when you win.And when you don't, just keep moving!So long as you don't stop moving, Soon you may realize just how close you are to winning!

Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Love is hope when reason despairs.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.