People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

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.

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.

A baby is a dancing joy of life.

These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.

Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.