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

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

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

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 nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

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

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

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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

Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

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.

Peace is always beautiful.

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.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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