"It is not so much that we accept reality as that we accept a limiting perception of things that then becomes our reality. Would it not be better to see reality as possibility, not something to accept but to explore, a perception not of constraints but of opportunity?"
"The true history of any era is of what human ingenuity accomplished while some would-be conqueror was distracting historians."
"No matter how devoted you are to cold, hard fact, you should always allow yourself enough religious faith to recognize your blessings."
It is said that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, which is to say that the satisfactions of life lie in our own perception. The happiness we pursue is ours to define. The rainbow we seek is ours to color in.
"Ah, the quest for fame -- the idea that you can find happiness by increasing the number of strangers who know who you are."
"I think the attraction, for many people, of religion over science is that religion has done the better job of sticking to its story."
"I believe this -- that you can have knowledge enough to be called wise but lack the necessary doubt."
"You might sometimes convince me by arguing from greater experience, but you will seldom convince me by arguing from greater revelation."
"Man is the only animal who lives in a zoo of his own construction."
"No one ever took free advice who had a chance to pay for it."
"The requirements of living conspire every day to overwhelm the purpose of life."
"There are people who are like a vehicle whose turn signal didn't flip off, and they go through life forever signaling a turn they don't make."
"As a rule of thumb, figure that the words you say will be misinterpreted in as many ways as they can be rearranged."
