When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.

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.

You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.