Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I know love is the answer.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

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