Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

His chair glides a few inches closer and he's in my face, all shoulders and cologne.

A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

Every girl deserves to be treated like a princess.

Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.