“It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.”

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.

The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’

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.

What if all the pain i am going through is preparing me for something amazing?

The amazing thing about us as humans is we’re capable of loving more than one person in our lifetime.

It is quite amazing what I didn’t feel after a while. I didn’t really want to feel things.

The ability to consciously decide and alter which direction is best for you in every moment is an amazing privilege. 

Everybody’s blind when the view’s amazing.

Sun, snow and shades – Perfect set-up for an amazing vacation.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.