We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.

For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.