The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.