“Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.”

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

Those who stand in the way of virtue shall fail!

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.