An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

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.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

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

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

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 more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

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

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Ability without honor is useless.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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