Oliver Sacks Quote

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and exp...

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...