Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

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.

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

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

God’s grace abounded much more in times of difficulty.

Seek within, for the answer cannot be found without.

I can’t relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

An empty street sucks your fullness

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

One cloud feels lonely.

Congress is not an ATM.