The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.

You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.

If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

Look at your eyes. You've got bigger bags than Louis Vuitton.

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after youve done that, dream bigger.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.