In cricket, mindset can often bowl out talent.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Always keep your mind that the very moment when your life may stifle you anyway, then it is the true sign that your life is actually not yours.

Reading is a journey of the mind

There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

Straw shows which way the wind is blowing

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It’s not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.