It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

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.

A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.

I kicked your arse and handed it to you like a hat.

Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.