Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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

Truth is a tendency.

Peace is always beautiful.

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.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

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

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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