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.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

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

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

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.