Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else