I don’t have anything to hide.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

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.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

I never talk about my next project.

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

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.

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

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

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

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

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

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.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

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

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.

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

A lie cannot live.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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.

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

True friends stab you in the front.

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

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

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

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!‘

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

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

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

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

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

Tell the children the truth.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

You know you’re not anonymous on our site. We’re greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

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

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

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

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

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

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

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

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

I do not pilfer victory.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.