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.

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

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

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

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

Love truth, but pardon error.

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

Truth is a tendency.

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.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

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

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

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

Peace is always beautiful.

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