The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

Our external vision can be a direct result of our internal state still it is possible for the amplified to be observational.

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshnessPeace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

You make the best out of it, you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An' foolish notion.

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.