One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.

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.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never before.

I'm enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.