A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.

When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends.

Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our life—and happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood.

My husband, Death, is a people-person. He introduces himself to everyone; however, he targets my’ repeat visitors and hard workers. He pays employees by the currency of carnal pleasure but when they reach the top...

It is better to trust and lose occasionally than always be suspicious and lose every time.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

The past cannot hurt you. It’s all in your head.

Success is a transformation not a final destination.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

A life with simplicity and joy is the best statement of success.

I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath,...

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Our spirit is universal, all powerful, and limitless. Why do we put societal boundaries around us? They are not boundless.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

he looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.

I came; I saw the possibilities; I made it a reality.

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I’m not...

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere...

You are knowledgeable when you know yourself.

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don’t accept it now, despite all the times I’ve seen it proved right.”The common good and the individual good...

Peace is a fresh flower.

A story is just a convoluted lie…with some hidden truths.

In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false information, one absolute truth is the fact that Superman is Clark Kent. All the rest is always open to...

Every thought is a potential reality.

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can’t see clearly.

A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always...

Love with a peaceful mind and bring peace with the power of love.

A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,’ she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the city Leesh-boa. ‘But before that, meus neto, my tribe was in the mountains where there...

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before...

It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only...

When you realize who you are and why you’re here, then peace will be there.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.

When you are in peace with you, you will find the peace everywhere you go.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.

Focus on what’s important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other’s diminishing lies.

To find the peace, learn to trust.

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.

O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.