He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.