Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

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.

I'm not saying he was, like, crying tears of man pain over the phone, but he sounded upset.

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

We've witnessed history in the making.

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.