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

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

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

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.

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

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

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.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

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.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

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.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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