When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias
The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
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