#perspective

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."

"The Mother Thing makes our world."

"College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination."

"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."

"One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed."

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

"Women should have nipples on their butts. From a design perspective, I think it would revolutionize the fashion industry."

"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?"

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

"I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past."

"Just when you thought you’d considered all the angles, life goes from a square to a cube. Love should also be 3D."

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck."

"A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian."

"Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!"

"You have the ability to choose your reactions."

"Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them."

"When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it."