What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
I have always been able to take care of the enemy in my front, but I have never been able to protect myself from the enemy in my rear [domestic politics and politicians].
A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.
The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.
Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.
When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.
The body is more drest then the soule.
My strength does not come from my clothing.
Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!
The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
