Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

What is energy? Everything is energy.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity.

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!