Yeah, I’m an open book.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

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

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

I’m totally myself.

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

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

I don’t believe in endorsing a product that you don’t want to endorse.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

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.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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.

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Rather be dead than cool.

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.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don’t do things to shock people. I’m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don’t know how long I’m going to be on this planet. So while I’m here, I might as well make the most of it.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

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.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

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

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.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

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.

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.