Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

... the song of the world is all of love.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

Focus on the solution, not the problem