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

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.

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.

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think, ' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

Fine words dresse ill deedes.

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.