My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

Friends hurt friends. They don’t mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love.

To live with imagination is to play among the stars.

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they're like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.

A decision clouded with doubt is never a good decision

He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.

It shifted attention away from that and Ive never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.