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.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
I quote others only to better express myself.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
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.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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.
Peace is always beautiful.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.