Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

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.

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

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.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Don't be afraid, " I said, "We belong together."I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.