“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”

“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”

“Fear is the mind-killer.”

“Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.”

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”

“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.”