Elizabeth Kastor (February 21, 1987) "The Flight of Memory - Mercury Reunion Honors Glenn's Voyage", The Washington Post, p. G1.
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Perspective on incelness
“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”
Source: The Story of My Life and Work
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Interview with Rona Barrett. Quoted by Emanuel Levy in Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer (2009) http://books.google.com/books?id=AxI9_F9MXxIC&q=%22Some+people+think+reality+must+be+constantly+depressing%22+%22but+I+think+reality+is+something+you+rise+above%22&pg=PA218#v=onepage
“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”
Source: Success! (1977), p. 284; a portion of this — "In order to succeed we must first believe that we can" — has become widely attributed to Nikos Kazantzakis on the internet, but without citation of any sources.
Context: The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
