truth

"Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine."

"Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"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 smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…"

"Never compromise your values."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

"What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?"

"An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear."

"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

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

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

"Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded."

"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else."

"Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage."

"You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble."

"I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."

"Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him."

"My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves."