“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is my business to know what other people do not know.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

A part of me died on the battlefield and a part of me was born. Vulnerability shed like peeling skin. Trust from my core was torn. I was caught between a disassembled heart and a young and fearful mind. I made peace with these pieces as I fell apart with the courage that I made mine.

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

Your memories walk wild in my mind. This is freedom.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

If the soul ain’t satisfied, then the mind ain’t right.

My mind is scarier than my demons.