By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.