QotD: Wise Words

What's one of your favorite quotes? 
Submitted by Georgie-boy. 

oh hell.  anyone who gets email from me or has me on their gchat contacts list sees a rotating set of quotes that strike me as favorites at the moment.  Quotations are like music, and some of mine are song lyrics.  Some are parts of novels; some are poetry.  Some are from movies, some are TV.  So, what are some of my favorites of the moment?

• "I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me."
  - Elizabeth Shue
  
• "When someone shows you who they really are, believe them."
  -    Maya Angelou (thanks marque)
  
• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
  -    Iris Murdoch
  
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
  -Montaigne
  
• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
  - Anais Nin
  
• “Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. “
  -    Amy Bloom
  

There are many many others on the list.  Oh, and Brian?  Some I know by heart, some I copy and paste from my word doc of quotes.