Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

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

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

My life is real.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.