Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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.
It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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.
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
