I quote others only to better express myself.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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.

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

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Love truth, but pardon error.

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

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

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

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.