But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

But then it passed, as all things do.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.