Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.