Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

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.

Dakota started laughing. "You wouldn't have anything back there to help me tame a punk-rock wild child with a disdain for cowboys, would you?

The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

I'm more of a smooth peanut butter kinda girl