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.
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.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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.
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
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.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
