If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.