Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
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.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
