Daydreaming subverts the world.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.

If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.