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 happiness of society is the end of government.
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.
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
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.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Truth is a tendency.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.