A lie cannot live.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

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.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

Tell the children the truth.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

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

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

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

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

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

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Education is the best provision for old age.