Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

The truth is, there are so few female roles in movies. That's really limiting. As an actor, you wanna be able to sink your teeth into something. You don't want to just be the best friend. You don't want to just be the girlfriend.

Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Equality was not freedom, it had only been the mistaken yearning to become like the people of the town. And who wanted to become like the very ones feared and hated? Envy was not freedom.

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.

That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins.

Communists are the last optimists.

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

The creative act is not pure.

You like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.

In every encounter between human beings there is a pace set that belongs to them, and that will be taken up in its own rhythm whenever they are together.