The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The victor will never be asked if he told the 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.

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

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.

Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.