We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

God is alive, real, and wants to heal you in every aspect of your life where you are hurting.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways.

It is never too late to do right.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.