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

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.