The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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 is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.