“Yet truth is a diamond; even mishandles, smeared with grease, or buried in mud, it cannot be marred and waits for one with a cloth to polish it clean.”
“Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up!”
“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with”
“Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.”
“A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.”
“Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”