You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
You and I do not need to be told new truths. We need to be reminded of old truths that we already know.
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The greatest truths are often the simplest, and the simplest truths are often the hardest to understand.
The truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God — so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death, but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection.
Truth is the cornerstone of integrity. Live authentically and speak your truth, even if it's uncomfortable.
Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher.
