“Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.”

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

Less stuff means less to clean, less to worry about, and less distraction & more savings.

The selfish mind is the distracted mind and the distracted mind is the easily oppressed mind.

I’m sorry I was distracted by my lack of giving a shit.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.