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.

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.

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.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

Every setback is an opportunity to grow.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.