Quotes about Perception

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

When I look at myself, I'm not a big man - I'm a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it - pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker - so I'm excited to break that stereotype.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.