"Sometimes neuroscientists ask impossible questions."

“I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.”

Source : "Forever the rebel with a cause, Gonzalez exits left at City Hall / Idealist energized young liberals in strong run for mayor" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2005.

“I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.”

Source : Martha Bolton (2010). “Ha! GIFT: humor for the lighter side of life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

“There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”

“Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...”

“Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.”

“I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.”

“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.”