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"I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album."
"Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune."
"She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place."
"Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."
"I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about."
"My body mirrors my state of mind. I am healthy, whole and complete"
"No one thinks in your mind except you."
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
"The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling."
"A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair"
"If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance."
"A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep."
"Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly."
"When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion."
"As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward."
"It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache."
"Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind."
"We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
"Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind."
"Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind"
