We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

Try not to be too focused on pleasing others and end up losing your true self.

A healthy company is a group of people well aligned for the same purpose propelled by the same values

Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

Most obstacles are inspiration.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.