How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I can be a cruel person.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Time discovers truth.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The object of the superior man is truth.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

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

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I do my job like I breathe.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.