If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

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.

Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

I can't do big things, but I want everything to be for the glory of God.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.