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

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

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

It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

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

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.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

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.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

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

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

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

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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