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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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

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

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.

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

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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

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

Love truth, but pardon error.

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.

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.

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

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

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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

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