.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

First fill your heart with an abundance of love. Then let the light of your love enlighten the whole world.

Mindfulness isn’t inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn’t inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that’s innate in all human beings.

To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.