To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

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.

When your thoughts, choices and actions are in alignment with love as a priority in your life, the streams of love flow naturally in ways that continue to replenish you.

The true meaning and purpose of life is to give some meaning and purpose to your life.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.