"That's a part of it. There's no question that goes through [our] mind. But you don't go into this thing to fail. If you do the research, the character, the background all the way through ... you've got to feel like you've done the right thing."

"In my mind, this is what I wanted to do. But I wanted to think about it some more and talk to both of those guys at the end of the year. But I announced it when I did because I wanted everybody to know, and put all the cards on the table."

"It's all in the mind."

"In my mind, Adam hasn't proven anything. He still has a lot to prove to me."

"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do"

"To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think."

"The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it's always hard to sleep."

"Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind."

"Be obscure clearly."

"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."

"In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine."

"Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available."

"The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her"

"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."

"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."

"Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience."

"What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it."

"But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment."

"It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers."

"On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind."

"Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do."

"Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand."