"For the greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Music is a delight because of its rhythm and flow. Yet the moment you arrest the flow and prolong a note or chord beyond its time, the rhythm is destroyed. Because life is likewise a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts. To work for their exclusion is to work against life."

"In over a dozen years as a stress consultant, one of the most pervasive and destructive mental tendencies I've seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have. It doesn't seem to make any difference how much we have; we just keep expanding our list of desires, which guarantees we will remain dissatisfied. The mind-set that says "I'll be happy when this desire is fulfilled" is the same mind-set that will repeat itself once that desire is met. "

"How do I make this better? is different than How do I make this? that's the way our culture works. It's easy to get a committee together to criticize the new logo that your agency put together. It's almost impossible to find someone willing to make the logo itself. We're a community of critics and tweakers and tinkerers. The reason is simple: it's safer. People rarely criticize the critic. And beyond that, it's not that hard to use sandpaper. It's a lot more difficult to use a bandsaw, or even use a pencil to draw the plans in the first place. There's a huge clue here about what to do next: get a pencil. That's what scarce. People who will draw up plans. People who will go first. "

"[People are] like donkeys running after carrots that are hanging in front of their faces from sticks attached to their own collars. They are never here. They never get there. They are never alive."

"Intense visualisation causes the stream to be straightened so that it takes the most direct route to your goal."

"At some point you have to stop studying the old and start creating the new or rather, not even create but take from where all discoveries and masterpieces are found - from Eternity."