Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Big Brother is watching you.

It’s against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

I don’t have anything to hide.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

I never talk about my next project.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.