If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.
The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
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.
I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.
In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.
There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.
I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.
In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.
I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.
I don't think it's ungracious to seek cosmetic help - it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it's too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
