To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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 pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Peace begins with a smile..

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.

Love truth, but pardon error.

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

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

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

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

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

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

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

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.