“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”

“What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”

“I love the stars.Because they can’t say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.”

“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”

“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.”

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”