Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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

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

Truth is a tendency.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

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

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

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

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

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