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

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.

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.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

Lord, please protect me from Your people.

You were always the Harry to my Hermione, flushing away my erratic anxiety with the rudest sense of realism.

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

You don't know what a semi-colon does... sort of like my act.