We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

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.

A “No Excuses” mindset in your family stems directly from your personal growth. If you are not growing as a person, the first impact will affect your family.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.

A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.

Stupid to the power of stupid.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.