Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

Things are rough all over.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.