Thomas Sowell

Change

“When you are through changing, you are through," Bruce Barton

Seeing

"A man only sees clearly through his heart," Andrea Bocelli

Photo credit: http://www.andreabocelli.com/en/#!/biography

 

Love

About Government

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance," Cicero, 55 BC

"You can't make socialists out of individuals--children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent," John Dewey, a founder of the philosophical school of Pragmatism and leader in the Progressive Movement in American education

Art

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. (Who said this?)

  “If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death." 
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

George Washington

Albert Einstein

"...science without religion is lame,

religion without science is blind."

Jesus

C.S. Lewis

“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

 

 

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense." 

Martin Luther King, Jr.