Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.
Behind every "Truth" there is always a "Lie", Behind every " Lie" there is always a "Reason", and behind every " Reason" there is always a "Person"....
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life.
O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.
We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.
If there are two straight sides to every story, they’ll always be one lopsided truth.
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.
Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.
So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.
It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.
