“Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?”

“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

"What makes innovative thinking happen?... I think it's really a mindset. You have to decide."

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.

“Breath is the king of mind.”

“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”

"The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking."

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

I've been things and seen places.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.