A joy shared is a joy doubled.
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
The real test of leadership isn’t where you start out. It’s where you end up.
The real leader holds the power, not just the position.
One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Real men stay faithful. They don’t have time to look for other women because they’re too busy looking for new ways to love their own.
Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because – like all real love stories – it will die with us, as it should. I’d hoped that he’d be eulogizing me.
I don’t see a future where we’re all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.
When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots.
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
Whether you’re studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it’s about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what’s leads to a more fulfilling life.
I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I’m reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.