Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

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.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

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

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

It is not truth that matters, but victory

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

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

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

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.

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

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

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

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Peace is always beautiful.