There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be and I am not the man I hope to be, but, by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.

On Christ's glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.