Quotes about Perspective

Oh, and the camel. Was it a camel that could pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man? Or a coarse piece of yarn? The Hebrew words are the same, but which one did they mean? If it's a camel, the rich man might as well not even try. But if it's the yarn, he might well succeed with a lot of effort, you see?

Every kid has it tough. Being a little person in a big world with nobody taking you very seriously is tough.

No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.

If the grown-up version of me could have one chance at walking backwards into this story, part of me wishes I could sit down on the back pew with that pissed-off kid in his overly tight church clothes and Darkhawk attitude, and tell him: You think you're giant but you are such a small speck in the screwed-up world. This is not about you.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they'd look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, "Keep going. This place already got taken out." It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight. As far as doing good for my fellow man, my better option was football.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comics.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.

You must understand the language of your enemy.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.