Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

I am not a crook.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Integrity has no need of rules.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

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

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

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

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

When in doubt tell the truth.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

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

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

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

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

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

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

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

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I can’t stand to see myself on television.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

My fat never made me less money.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power… because it’s obvious that it’s them I’m criticizing, but they can’t show that in front of the cameras. It’s quite funny sometimes.

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.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.