I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.