Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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

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.

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

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

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

Truth is a tendency.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

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.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

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.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

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.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I quote others only to better express myself.