It is not truth that matters, but victory

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

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

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

Love truth, but pardon error.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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

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.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

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

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

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.