While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.

Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.