The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

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

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.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

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

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.