Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

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

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

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

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.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

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

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

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

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Industry need not wish.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

When in doubt, don’t.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

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

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.