History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

I love objectivity when mine.

It’s not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

When we see everyone the way God sees them, all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths,we can learn to treat them tenderly. We must also view ourselves from God’s perspective: lovingly, tenderly,...

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths...

He does keep things in perspective. When things get tough, I look at him and realize that we are doing good things.

…you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you’ve changed the view from my window!…

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God’s name is memorised by me. That doesn’t mean they don’t...

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was...

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to...

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What’s so wrong with that?

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, “My heart resumed its place.” Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been “as much afraid of me as...

…You don’t always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. … Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be...

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

Isn’t it lucky?

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

…lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Reading is a sage way to bump up against life. Reading may be an escape, but it is not an escape from my own life and problems. It is an escape from the narrow boundaries...

I wish I could draw you how I see you. I’d draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I’d draw...

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

It’s individual, especially on the men’s side. I want to see how the freshmen compete. From the team perspective, it’s irrelevant on the women’s side. We won’t even have a team score.

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a...

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country’s table but by ingenuity and courage is...

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from...

They were the good old days. Don’t give up hope in the bad newdays, which will become then good old days. We appreciate Kennedy because he was killed; Martin Luther King was a great man....

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it...

We begin to learn wisely when we’re willing to see world from other people’s perspective.

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

…what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history…

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?’It doesn’t, really … Somewhere where it all balances out – don’t the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? – if...

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking...

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him....

Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a ‘footnote’ to colonial history about the ‘revolt’ of the American colonies....

Although I may not like the different streets and paths life has taken me through, I have come to appreciate them afterwards.

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.

Success is never a place but a perspective.