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

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

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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

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

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 victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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

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.

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

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

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.