It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

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.

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

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.

Everybody has dreams and goals. All you have to do is dig them up.

Jimmy: When you die, I dieSora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!

Don't overthink yourself out of something good!

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.