If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

The mind map will change your life.

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health.

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.

Donald Trump needs to understand the Republican establishment - they're not going to be his friend, either.

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.