Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

It's just that with football, when you don't get the ball, you can't show your talents and that's always been something in the back of my mind.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.