Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.
It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
Prosperity has many friends, even adversity has a few friends, but originality practicing the reality of altruistic humanity in life has only true friends.
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
I wouldn’t want perfect love. I want true love, the kind that doesn’t depend on pretending to be better than I am.
Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.
The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love.
Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
Religion is more than rite and ritual.
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
