The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.

The reality is great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress. Don't think people want to hear about the last two.

But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. ... What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.