All men are born truthful and die liars.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.