The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

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.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

I guess you wouldn't dare to dream that you would get to the end of five years.

Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.