This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Make sure when you reach for the stars, you keep both feet firmly planted on the ground.

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

We take anybody. Come on in, anybody. Just come on in. Not anymore.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.