truth

"A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."

"I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth."

"Telephone pole wires get in the way of great photos. Communication always gets in the way of communication."

"Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time."

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

"That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw."

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it."

"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that."

"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."

"It takes guts to love with gusto. Most people love as if they wish they were invisible, and then they wonder why their affections go unnoticed."

"Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood."

"In wine, there's truth."

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular."

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

"Scepticism is the first step towards truth."

"I only feel like myself when I am alone."