In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Tell the children the truth.

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.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The press is the enemy.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.