The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about Winning and losing.

Be for something and against nothing.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)