Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

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.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.