The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness.

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.