Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

— Richard J. Foster

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

— William Shakespeare

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

— Charles Dickens

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

— Evelyn Waugh

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

— Harold Bloom

Folly is a child of power.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

— Jen Pollock Michel

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

— Frank Herbert

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You'll contact with me by the pressure, the need or by the interest '.

— Fernando González y Lozano