truth

"Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes."

"..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man."

"For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them"

"To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand."

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

"Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time."

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

"She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her."

"The truth was stranger than the official fiction."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

"You're so easy to read but the book is boring me."

"How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most."

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ."

"When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface."

"If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

"Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance."