It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

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

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.