Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.