I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands.

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 fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

It’s not Brittney’s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.