Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
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.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.