Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

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.

This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell".

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Some call it Evolution And others call it God.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Truth is no road to fortune.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.