If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val