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.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

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

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

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

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

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

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

Is there no way out of the mind?