Quotes about Perspective

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

Blacks should feel fortunate to be citizens of this country. We are blessed, not enslaved, and those who say otherwise are enslaved only by their own hatred.

My body doesn't look like it did before. It's changed after having a baby... it's not better or worse, just different.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.