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.
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.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.
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.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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.
Love truth, but pardon error.