perspective Quotes

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the... ...

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for... ...

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you