Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

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

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.

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

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

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

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