Live truth instead of professing it.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Tell the children the truth.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

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

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

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.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

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

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

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.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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.

I am not a crook.

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

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

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.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.