An honest man is always a child.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Ability without honor is useless.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

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.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

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.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Elegance is refusal.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Character is power.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Simplify, simplify.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

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.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I don’t have anything to hide.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?