Erklären heißt verzeihen, erklärt zu werden heißt Verzeihung erlangen [...]

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.