There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

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.

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.

Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

Don't let him take you from me.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.