Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

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

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.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Love truth, but pardon error.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

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

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.