When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.

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.

Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell...

Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.