Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I love imperfections.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

There is no wealth but life.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

Life is wasted on the living.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

The honor of a nation is its life.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Life is a dead-end street.