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

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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.

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

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

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

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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

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.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.