Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

​The human brain creates everything that you are.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

I never really felt secure until I was well into my 30s, because anytime I had success, I would invest in new projects.

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.