The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.
I usually have a title in mind before I start.
I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.
If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.
For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.