To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

Past data should only be used as a learning and not as a base for setting future goals

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.