“Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.”

“To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.”

“Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.”

“Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.”

“What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French.That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else,” my father answered in French.”

“Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word”