Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.

You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.

Faith only grows through suffering.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.