The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.