It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

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.

My life is in full tilt, and I reach forward with joy.

if it was time that made me lost what we were, then i hate time...

Things are always better in the morning.

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.