If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

Even if I played for a million years, I’d never come close to Maradona. Not that I’d want to anyway. He’s the greatest there’s ever been.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

Whatever it is that we put in our hearts and minds, whatever seed you plant in it, it will grow. We might not know it but subconsciously, in one way or another, it can affect us.