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.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

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.

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

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

I’ve laid my friends bare.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

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.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

I do not pilfer victory.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

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

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.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

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

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

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

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

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.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

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

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

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

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

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

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

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.