Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.

Don't let a day go by without seeing some wonder in it, Cadi. Stop moping around the house wishing for things to change between ye and yer mama. Go out and see what's there for ye." God was there. God was everywhere.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will, free or otherwise, is concerned with the future. Thinking is the performance of the moment, out of which you use your judgment to modulate will. You are a convection center through which past prepares future. —Dwarf MacIntosh, Kelpmaster, from Conversations with the Avata

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.