I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

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.

Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.