I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

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

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.