I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.