Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

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 never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

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.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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.

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

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

My life is real.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

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

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

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

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

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

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.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

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

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

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

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

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

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

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

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

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

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

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.