A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from, I've got an idea on where I'm going, And with the way things are going, I'm just glad to be me.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

If you are my friend,you are down for me at all times,not just when it's convenient.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda.

Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.