Quotes about Perspective

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

One person's religion is another person's cult.