When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

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 wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

She may never be someone ANYONE can understand. But she will always be worth the wait.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.