You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

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.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.