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.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

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

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.