“Reality in strong doses frightens.”

Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Toleration is the best religion.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

But real life doesn’t travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn’t necessarily have that ‘all lived happily ever after’ bit. You have to work on where you’re going.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

As athletes, we think we’re heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.