#perspective

"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."

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."

"The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits."

"I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean."

"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"

"The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it."

"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act."

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

"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."

"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."

"Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective."

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

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

"No two persons ever read the same book."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there."