Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

Mourn with those who are sorrowful.Be happy with those who are joyful.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

Getting rich isn't about doing certain things. It's about doing things in the certain way!