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.

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

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

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.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

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

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

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

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

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

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

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

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Peace is always beautiful.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

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

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