The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or re...
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest,...
The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love.
The popular European and American caricature of Afghans as wild, bloodthirsty men—a description that delighted Afghans themselves endlessly when they heard it—was contradicted by every direct contact...
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. But
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
The heart doesn’t know how to quit, because it doesn’t know how to lie.
The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you’re thinking. Didier’s corollary to the rule was: always know what the other thinks of you.
The drums staggered toward the distant street. Moving away from us, the dancers romped and rolled on the rhythm, their swaying heads like a field of wildflowers weaving back and forth on waves of wind...
The cops watched me and the Georges and the other foreigners who worked the streets, and they knew exactly what we were doing. They reasoned, truly enough, that we caused no violent harm, and we were...
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
Suffering, let me see. I think that suffering is a matter of choice. I think that we do not have to suffer anything in this life, if we are strong enough to deny it. The strong man can master his feel...
Suffering is the truth. Not suffering is the lie. I told you that, once before. That's just the way the world is.
Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer,...
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become.
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.’ I