I quote others only to better express myself.

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.

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

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.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

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

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.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

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

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

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

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

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

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

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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