Darkness exaggerates the size of a spark.

Appearances can be deceiving: Some of those who own the most expensive homes look homeless.

We are way less often deceived by looks than we are by the act of looking.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

Completely different impressions of someone can each be created by a selection of facts, or even a single fact, from the very same collection of facts about them.

Many a man once started a friendship with a woman just to get into her life, with the sole intention of making her his girlfriend as soon as he could.

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

In many if not most cases we truly believe that what is merely a means is really an end.

We sometimes benefit way more from being lied to than the person lying to us.