It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

For me, books have always been the greatest gifts. I love to give and receive them because I know they are a reflection of the giver.

Count your blessings. Millions of people would love to trade their problems for yours.

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.