No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

ON LIVING LIFE WISELY - To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.

It's all about embracing your inner beauty and just living for yourself.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.