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.

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

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

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

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.