There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.