It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won’t be any way of knowing.

We have to work ten times harder to get things that seem to be handed to other people. But that’s okay because I think it gives us a secret strength that the people who coast...

To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking...

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of...

Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.

A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer; for he recognizes the truth

Every time you publish a book, be prepared to eat a fresh slice of humble pie.

A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.

We too often forget that not only is there ‘a soul of goodness in things evil,’ but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth...

I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

From this point of view, science – the real game in town – is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one’s manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form...

Humans should always speak truth and should be committed towards it. Such a person is always immortal.

prison cell” that those lies create.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he had never known existed – himself. He was Sam. He was...

Too many of us live with an uncontrolled thought life. It is possible to learn to identify destructive thoughts and make wiser choices. Instead of letting those thoughts rumble freely about in my mind, I...

As for her, I’d forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and...

IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt...

We all agree men are dogs, with the similar conviction let’s also agree to the quiet truth; women are desperate dogs.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to...

Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.

I hate when people say ‘I see’. It doesn’t mean anything and I think it’s hostile. Whenever anyone tells me ‘I see’ I think they’re really saying ‘Fuck you’.

The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media’s insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn’t as...

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the...

May the truth protect me in all ways.

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these...

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure.

There will be no enemy if we overpower them with love.

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

Love has the power to hold the whole universe together.

The first step towards freedom is to choose truth.

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

You are my love, you are my light, you are my blue sky, when I am vanishing in you only then I can fly.

I woke up this morning with the words clomping around in my head: ‘Truth does not become wisdom until the exact moment you’re ready for it. No one can force it on you, even though...

Greatness is unleashed when you develop faith in the power of your faith.

Emerge yourself with love and live in the open.To not feel shy, forget about hell or heaven.

Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike,...

We find that one person in life that will stand by us through everything, support us, love us regardless of yourself. That one person that will stand by your side through everything. Grab onto that...

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don’t ever forget that.

When there is nonjudgmental love then there is no giving up.

Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Come, come everyone, come with love, come with joy, come to my heart, there is always spring, roses always smiling, soul is always singing with joy in the light of love. I am waiting, are...

The Holy Spirit is described as the Comforter, like a mother would be a comforter to her child. It is also said of the Spirit that He will lead us into all truth. Who instructs...