To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.