“What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.”

“Well, before you are always self—you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.”

Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician

“But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.”

Ellis Peters (1913–1995) British writer

“One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“History some truths contains, which well may serve
For lessons. In my work you will observe
Ev'ry thing speaks — yea e'en the very fish —
And what they say, to ev'ry man a dish
Serves up; and I of animals make choice
That men may get instruction from their voice.”

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

“We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

“You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.”

Carl Bernstein (1944) American journalist

“In order to create and to heal, to do and to serve,.. to act we need detachment.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian

“One reason we cannot forget our law enforcement legacy is that the people we serve and protect cannot forget it, either. So we must talk about our history. It is a hard truth that lives on.”

James Comey (1960) American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)