A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I want a baby from an Italian – possibly Sicilian – donor.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Justice is truth in action.

The lie is a condition of life.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.