The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Let your heart sing from those wounded places.When you sing your song with everything you've got, it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.

While you’re hating your life just because you can’t get what you want, someone is praying to have a life like yours..!!

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes