Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made 'bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' (Isaiah 52:10).

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.