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

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

A letter does not blush.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

A promise must never be broken.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

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

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

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

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.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

Anger cannot be dishonest.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?