“Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”

“Who how to stand out, before even touching you, will already have enraptured your mind.”

“Where can I find a man who's both religious at heart and scientist in mind?”

“The only thing about a man that is a man… is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

“We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.”

“I plead guilty to valuing such a man beyond all other sorts of men. Smooth-shaven Respectabilities not a few one finds, that are not good for much. Small thanks to a man for keeping his hands clean, who would not touch the work but with gloves on!”

“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.” — JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE”

“Great art isn't about decoration - it's a different language that can both touch our hearts, and open our minds.”

“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”