Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.
Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment.
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.