“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Don't ask me for truth, for cats lie in the sun, and dogs lie in the shade, and I lie whenever and wherever I can get away with it.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.