As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

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.

Music is poetry with personality

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.