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

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

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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