Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.

Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.

The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?