What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

Will never be happy if you continue to disturb the happiness of others

The best is the enemy of the good.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Helpful is the new viral.

I was a terrible English student.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.