Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

Yesterday was a memory. Today was a hope.

At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)

I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while.