The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It seems that every time a pressing danger is avoided a new and more sophisticated threat appears on the horizon...Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated.

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.