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.

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

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.