Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

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.

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

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

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.

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.

The one who stands alone can become a winner, but can he be happy

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.