What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Steve Jobs

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
Barack Obama

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Jimi Hendrix

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
Kurt Cobain

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
Anthony Kiedis