I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

I think it's important to associate with positive, upbeat people.

I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

You get energy from other people, so hang out with energetic people.

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.

In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

Every day, I walk with my dog - summer, winter (it gets -20 F in Saint Paul), rain or shine. The nicer the day, of course, the longer the walk.

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.

Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!