From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.