If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
Peace begins with a smile..
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
I quote others only to better express myself.
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.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.