If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.

Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

I think living in a new country gives you a certain bravery that you don't have when you live in your own country - because of the freedom it gives you.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.