A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

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

For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.