"I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Dream Quotes #Play Quotes #Mind Quotes

“'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'”
“By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music.”
“The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.”
“Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.”
“The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.”
“Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.”
“I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isnâ€™t some sinister force dragging me toward death. This time I know itâ€™s my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms. And I go gladly into her embrace.”
“May be sheâ€™ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

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