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

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

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. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.

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

An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.