The highest civilizations – the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms – are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.
The real achiever does one thing at a time.
Shoes are real. Money is an end result.
The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.
It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.
A real man don’t call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God hidden in a human heart, in a human face.
The real ‘action’ in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.