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.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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.
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.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
It is not truth that matters, but victory
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
The happiness of society is the end of government.