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

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

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Peace begins with a smile..

Adversity is the first path to truth.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

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

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

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Truth is a tendency.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

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

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

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

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

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.