If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

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

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world