Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations.
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
Sometimes I don’t know whether I’m real or whether I’m a character in one of my novels.
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively – because without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer.
There will never be a nuclear war; there’s too much real estate involved.
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
The real safeguard of democracy is education.