Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

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

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.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

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.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

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?

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Seeing is not always believing.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

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.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Tell the children the truth.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.