“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.”

"I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander"

The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality.

“Waiting for the right time to get real in your relationships is a fool’s errand. There is no right time to have the conversation, ask the hard questions, say “I love you,” or take the time to truly listen. There is only right now.” 

“the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.” 

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

"To be simple is no small matter."

"My son is so fortunate, you know. He's always going to have food. Yes, my children are going to be privileged, but that's why it's so important for them to see different realities and to travel, and they do already."

"Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this."

"... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations."

"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real."

"The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem."

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

"His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises."

"I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed."

"But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?"

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

"The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence."

"Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that."

"You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."