There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

A letter does not blush.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

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.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

The only shame is to have none.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I think that I’m perfect.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.