Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Iterate. Iterate Iterate.

The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.