Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

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

...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

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

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.