Reality

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

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried

The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

The earth seemed unearthly.

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.