“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”

“They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.”

“A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.”

“Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republ...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”