An honest man is always a child.

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

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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

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

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

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

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

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

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.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

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.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

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

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.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

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

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

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.

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

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.