The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I can be a cruel person.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

An honest man is always a child.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Love can do much, but duty more.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.