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.

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.

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

By denying the youth an education you murder the future RjS

I don't want to wake up and find out it was all a dream.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.

Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn't do enough.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

Be who you are and do that well.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.