Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem.

I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

There are probably times where the creative process is not helped by collaboration.

Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.

When you get more middle fingers than thumbs up, it's a progress.

A good writer is an excellent reader.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

Intersectionality may well sound like some unfortunate bowel complaint resulting in copious use of a colostomy bag, and indeed it does contain a large amount of ordure.

I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.