It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

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.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

Everybody should have one goal: to be happy.

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.