It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.