Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.