Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

The worst crime is faking it.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.