Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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.

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.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

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

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

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

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.