Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

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.

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.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

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.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Peace is always beautiful.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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 suffers from too much analysis.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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

It is not truth that matters, but victory

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