To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

We can’t spend our lives wondering, ‘what if?’ We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones

The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.