Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting they'll use it to heal you instead.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.


Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.

And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.