Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Peace is always beautiful.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be 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.
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
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 practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.