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.

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

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.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

Jeez, Claire. If I didn't love you, you'd scare me.

I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the same air that he breathes.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.