Just because we chose to reject the truth doesn't mean that such an option was actually available to us.

The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.

What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is that the fear that destroys us is rarely the monster it pretends to be, nor does it possess anything close to the power that we grant it. Therefore, it is only a killer, a cancer and a thief because we empower it to be so.

If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.