When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

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

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

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

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.