People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

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.

What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.

Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow

Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it

Sometimes, The Things We Can't Change End Up Changing Us.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.