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.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Try to be surprised by something every day.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

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

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.