A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

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.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.