Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
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.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Peace begins with a smile..
