If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

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

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

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.

Peace is always beautiful.

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

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

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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.

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

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.

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.

I quote others only to better express myself.

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

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