If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.