Joy Deshazo

“You will learn that when the truth isn't pretty, expected, or delivered with a fair dose of charm, people will almost always put their faith in a lie.”
― H.G. Beverly, The Other Side of Charm: Your Memoir

“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“To us, warmth and likeability mean safety and trust—because if someone’s going to hurt us, we’ll see shifty eyes and feel a certain coldness, we’re sure. That is, until we meet the privately brutal behavior of a devastatingly warm person.”
― H.G. Beverly, The Other Side of Charm: Your Memoir

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage