One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.