Honesty is the best policy.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.