No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they’re not easy, nature didn’t give them to us - we have to learn them.

You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.

People also smile when they are miserable.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.

A broken promise is not a lie.

J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible."[Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.

'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.