When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

They want me. I want them. I want this place. I want everything to be simple and beautiful and warm.

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.