Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

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

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

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

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

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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

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.

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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

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

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

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.

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

I quote others only to better express myself.