Pastoral Resources

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.