The Bible, or Holy Scripture, said Luther, is like a fair and spacious orchard, w herein all sorts of trees

do grow, from which we may pluck divers kinds of fruit s; or in the Bible we have rich and precious comforts, learning, admonitions, wa rnings, promises, and threatenings, etc. There is not a tree in this orchard on which I have not knocked, and have shaken at least a couple of apples or pears f rom the same. -Martin Luther Be soft like water and flexible. -Bruce Lee Be formless, shapeless like water. -Bruce Lee When you are talking about fighting as it is . . . well then baby, you better tr ain every part of your body. -Bruce Lee Your brain is the most precious organ in your body. It needs utmost protection-especially from brain poisons. My own view is that for optimal brain function th e intake of alcohol should be zero. -Vernon H. Mark An excellent way to increase brain power is to think 10 "impossible thoughts" be fore breakfast. -Richard Leviton Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. -John F. Kennedy The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think. Why do so many men never a mount to anything? Because they don't think. -Thomas Edison Your hundred billion brain cells are designed to be the most profoundly powerful problem-solving mechanism in the known universe. -Michael Gelb A seed grown in good ground brings forth fruit. A principle instilled into a goo d mind brings forth fruit. -Blaise Pascal A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bar e he can blame none but himself. -Louis L'Amour The mind which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a mi racle is itself a miracle. -M. Scott Peck The human mind is our fundamental resource. -John F. Kennedy Rule your mind or it will rule you. -Horace A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startl ed us. -Emerson Most of the difficulties and failures in your life are due to the fact that your subconscious is a reservoir of a vast amount of misinformation. -Paul Adams Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather bec omes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. -Leonardo da Vin ci An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -Albert Camus All progress of mind consists for the most part in differentiation, in the resol ution of an obscure and complex subject into its component aspects. -Walter Pat er Only the mind cannot be sent into exile. -Ovid The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of h eaven. -John Milton All bodies, the firmament, the stars, the earth and its kingdoms, are not equal to the lowest mind; for mind knows all these and itself; and these bodies nothin g. -Blaise Pascal In my mind's eye. -Shakespeare Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. -Thomas R. Dewar Great minds are interested in ideas, average minds in events, small minds in peo ple. -Unknown Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. -W illiam Cowper It will throw additional light on the latter, to go back and run the mind over t he string of historical facts already stated. -Abraham Lincoln I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. -Mohandas K. Gandhi The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. -Peter. B. Medawar The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it's trained well it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant. -Robert T. Kiyosaki

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more i t is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged t o do the more we are able to accomplish. -Tryon Edwards I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for the y are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes. -Lord Chesterfield But to return to the sparrows. There have been so many flights of them let loose in this opera, that it is to be feared the house will never get rid of them; an d that in other plays they may make their entrance in very wrong and improper sc enes, so as to be seen flying in a lady's bed-chamber, or perching upon a king's throne; besides the inconveniences which the heads of the audience may sometime s suffer from them. -Joseph Addison But the great point is action! Every one Comes as spectator, and the show's the fun. Let but the plot be spun off fast and thickly, So that the crowd shall gape in broad surprise, Then have you made a wide impression quickly, You are the man they'll idolize. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Theory and practice must work hand in hand. -Francis Bacon Things get personal when they go from the theoretical to the real. -Max Lucado We need new modes of reasoning, new tools for the understanding. -Francis Bacon Early morning was the best time for solid thinking. -Harry Truman The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. -Ab raham Lincoln Thoughts run pictures in your mind. -Tom Miller Often you create your own negative situations yourself with wrong thinking, wron g believing, and wrong speaking. -Kenneth Hagin, Sr. Thought is response delayed. -Spinoza When once a nation begins to think, it is impossible to stop it. -Voltaire To be useful reasoning must be about things and must keep in touch with them at every step. -Bertrand Russell The first law of morality should be to think straight. -Bertrand Russell The world's woes are largely due to mysticism, to culpable obsucurity of thought . -Bertrand Russell Thought is a stream of transitive ideas. -Will Durant We need a ruthless revolution in our methods of research and thought, in our sys tem of science and logic. We need a new 'Organon' better than Aristotle's fit fo r this larger world. -Francis Bacon The senses are of the earth; reason, stands apart in contemplation. -Leonardo D a Vinci