“Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration.”
“Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!”
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
“I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.”
“The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown," the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . .”
“Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf.”