“I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.”

“Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.”

“If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.”

“It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”

“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.”

“You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.”