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"Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind."
"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
"When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous."
"Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus."
"Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it."
"An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will."
"As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit"
"Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes."
"Luck has nothing to do with it."
"A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind."
"When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind."
"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."
"Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula."
"That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it."
"Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious."
"You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!"
"There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind."
"But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!"
"Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?"
"Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports."
