Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve...

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist...

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.

When a man comes to your house with a bag full of money, he certainly has seen more in your backyard than in the bag.

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of like how the nurse lubes your ass up before the anus-cam....

I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

People say I’m such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I’m a realist.

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties by means of Hilbert’s program. Here one regards mathematics as a formal game...

I was hell-bent on being an effective humanitarian in Cambodia and Somalia. But a naïve fog is finally lifting. Revealed is a train wreck of illusions, the depravity of someone else’s war, the futility of...

When you leave, I feel like I’m alone with your demons.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

I know I’m not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I’ll be forever in your heart. 

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

And when I fall in love,” I began, “I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while...

Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there’s little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content....

The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history—the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are...

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see...

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Maybe it’s not logical. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’ve been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it’s odd...