Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.