Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

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

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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