A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.
—Charles Spurgeon (English Baptist Preacher)
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
It is the mind that makes the body.
—Sojourner Truth (African-American Abolitionist)
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
—William Butler Yeats (Irish Poet)
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
—Mary Baker Eddy (American Religious Leader)
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
—J. R. R. Tolkien (British Philologist, Writer)
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
—Martin Buber (Austrian Jewish Philosopher)