I’ve got nothing to hide.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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.

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

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

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

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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

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

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

A letter does not blush.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

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.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

I’m trying to make the world a more open place.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

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

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

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.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too secretive and too incestuous. Its membership shares the same DNA. That means the rulebook for municipal bonds is in the hands of a board that resembles a revolving door of longtime industry confederates.

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

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

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

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

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

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.