Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

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.

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

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.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.

"O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.

Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.