Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

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.

Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

When you like something, you should do it all night long.

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.