There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

It is not truth that matters, but victory

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Peace is always beautiful.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist