Quotes about Perspective

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Comedy, if it didn't save my life, certainly gave me a very different life.

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

Theology is the study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.