A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

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.