There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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.

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

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

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

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

I quote others only to better express myself.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.