The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.