We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

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

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

Tell the children the truth.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.