To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.