Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.