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.

I’d never had a mind for math. … It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a...

When you’re finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you’re going to get a concept that maybe this really is one...

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

…I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our...

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.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word” trouble’ loses much of its meaning.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this,...

[…] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in comparison with the...

Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.

Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it...

The definition of ‘Employment’ by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I...

Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so–it’s an innate urge with them, something that they do as a matter of course, without even thinking about the psychological benefits...

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another...

When someone says you can’t, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can’t.

Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima...

Life’s a short trip. You’ll find out.

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward...

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way...