One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

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.

Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.