I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

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.

It is our responsibility to enlighten our people.

Three powerful d’s of life Dream. Desire. Dare.

Life is never a static journey. Life goes on! Life is about step taking. For everything I need to know about life, I need to take a step

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

I don't eat any toxic chemicals, and I eat organic as often as possible.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.