No legacy is so rich as honesty.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

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

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

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.

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

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

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

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Science is but an image of the truth.

My family’s lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

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

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

But I’ve got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album’s worth of work as his legacy. That’s all that life allowed him.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Honesty is the best policy.

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