The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?