A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Peace begins with a smile..

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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

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.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

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

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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

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.