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

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.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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

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.

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 most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

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

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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.

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.

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.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

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.

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

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.