truth

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."

"Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell..."

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."

"Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace."

"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."

"He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart."

"You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there."

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

"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."

"Trying to hide my feelings to avoid getting hurt just ends up hurting not only myself—but also the person I am hiding my feelings from."

"Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated"

"The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too."

"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."

"Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths."

"Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential."

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."