To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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

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

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

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

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

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

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

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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