The sleep of reason produces monsters.

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

Not all heads have a brain.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Is there no way out of the mind?

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.