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

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.

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.

What a failure her life had been. Would she have lied to God if she’d had more faith, been more righteous? How could she possibly have a son at her age? And yet, if she had believed all along . . .

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God.

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

The long historian of my country's woes.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.