Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

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.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.